border rockets fired into israel. also on the people mostly. open fire outside. it's the latest in a wave of attacks targeting. even more pressure on the. president judges have ruled. hasn't been held to account for illegally spending taxpayers' money. they want parliament to launch proceedings from office after a career of close calls. over . there are the new. facebook live and al-jazeera. well it's really forces have hit targets in gaza in response to rocket fire that was a change at southern israel so crowds massed on the border demonstrations in gaza city as you can see some palestinian demonstrators try to plant fly. near the fence and throw stones at israeli soldiers they've been hitting back with tear gas and sporadic gunfire it's the fourth friday in a row that protests have been held against the u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital marcum web joining us from gaza so as night falls malcolm talk us through the developments of the day what are you hearing about the latest casualty figures in gaza. well as you said the rain started with a couple of street rallies in gaza city the edge of the cities just a couple hundred meters over there and after those valleys many demonstrators came here to the border i'm going to stand aside and get the cameraman to zoom in a bit so we can see what's going on just now there's been a few hundred people at this spot on the border it's one of five spots where people have been demonstrating today trying to get as close to the fence that surrounds gaza the fence in the room that surrounds go to try to get as close as possible to plant flags and throw stones and light fires setting fire to tires and so on and the israeli army as it has done for the last month responded with tear gas and some shooting the ministry of health says forty people have been injured and taken to hospital. there's a steady flow of ambulances all day long there's still a couple of ambulances here now. ago there was a fairly heavy volley of tear gas came quite close to where we're standing. looks like now that it's getting dark the israeli military wants to clear the remaining protesters and with the rockets that were launched into into southern israel malcolm i mean is there a sense are you getting a sense that things are going to potentially escalate in gaza. no sign of that yet but we did hear and feel a series of heavy loud explosions distant loud when we were in gaza city a few hours ago when when those rockets were fired according to the israeli army three rockets were fired from gaza into southern israel just over there two of them were intercepted by the. missile defense system according to the israeli military another one landed on some buildings there are no casualties reported but the israeli military responded with some tank shells fired this way these very minute she said they hit two positions belonging to hamas there are positions of armed factions dotted up and down along the border here in what local residents told us tallied with that as well ok malcolm will leave it there we thank you michael when giving us the updates from gaza you can connect with malcolm as well on twitter he's at malcolm web and you can also get in touch with us here at the news grid we want to hear from you on the story anything else that you might have seen or heard you can send in your comments to any one of our online platforms tweet us at aging or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news great you can send us a whatsapp on plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine just a reminder to always use the hash tag a.j. news grid well an attack on a church in egypt has killed at least nine people a gunman was also killed police shot him when he tried to storm the church in henan province charles stratford has more. suspected attacker lives on the ground it's believed he's wearing a suicide vest which you can state t.v. these pictures field outside the coptic church of modern mena in a sudden cairo suburb. two gunmen reportedly on a motorcycle opened fire outside the church as a service was taking place one was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces another was reportedly arrested it's a lot of fear not a bit of thank god the lock the door there were hundreds inside if getting close a door on time it could have been worse than did back in the road a mosque in the sinai this is the latest of a number of attacks on egypt's christian minority which represents about ten percent of the population the likely suspect or two organizations really that has been consistently targeting since twenty fifteen and sinai so this on i province or the small leddy central i sell of affiliated with isis but plating in the valley and the primaries to small and cells one in cairo and one in central delta problem is that there is no clear counterterrorism and counterinsurgency policies so far dealing with this threat and for a while egypt has been just continuing the same down there in the same mistakes egypt has been under a state of emergency since april when suicide bombing struck two coptic church is killing at least forty five people on palm sunday a local affiliate of lysol claimed responsibility. the government has deployed more security forces outside churches in recent weeks in anticipation of attacks over the christmas period christians have a long accuse the authorities of not doing enough to protect them this attack will likely make those accusations louder child strafford al-jazeera. ok progress across developments out of egypt on our website we have context and analysis on this latest attack on the church and it's regularly updated by our online team at al jazeera dot com now south africa parliament has been ordered to launch proceedings that could remove president jacob zuma from office the constitutional court made the ruling saying parliament had failed to hold zuma to account over his so-called home improvements scandal so he had previously been found to have misspent taxpayers' money upgrading his private residence zuma survive moves against him in parliament where the governing african national congress has a majority more recently though he's lost a.n.c. support and has been replaced as party leader so apart from the furore surrounding his. political career has been rocked by other scandals in two thousand and six before he became president zuma was acquitted of raping an hiv positive woman he's shocked a nation then by saying he'd taken a shower to avoid contract in the virus there was a poor in twenty fifteen when zuma suddenly fired his finance minister replacing him with another largely unknown politician for their sacking since then have undermined investor confidence and zuma has come under fire over alleged influence peddling involving south africa's powerful group the family which reportedly secured government tenders and influenced ministerial appointments tanya page as the latest from johannesburg. the constitutional court south africa's highest court has found that the national assembly that's parliament failed to take appropriate action against president jacob zuma and relation to gross overspending of taxpayers' dollars on his private home called income the constitutional court says the first thing that should happen is that the national assembly needs to come up with a comprehensive list of rules and regulations which perhaps could lead to the impeachment of president zuma however they didn't go so far as to say that's what should happen because that would be in breach of the separation of powers the opposition parties who brought this legal action we're pleased with the outcome nonetheless the constitutional delinquent mr zuma in no time will be scrutinised will be brought before parliament to be accountable because his own political party has actually failed to hold him accountable and we can with the other day longer we need to be in parliament in no less than did today's before the state of the nation address of twenty eight. in their defense president zuma and the speaker of parliament both sit it wasn't true that the national assembly had done nothing multiple votes of no confidence in president zuma has been house and they've all been defeated and that's what it comes down to it's a matter of numbers in parliament because impeaching a president is a parliamentary process so even when there are rules in place that could lead to impeaching a president ultimately that would require a two thirds majority and the reality is that the governing african national congress holds the majority and so be extremely unlikely that the numbers would be able to be gathered for an impeachment so as you've been hearing zuma has faced several serious allegations of corruption and the a.n.c. has lost support as a result while the new leader of the a.n.c. says he has a new vision for the country and will fight corruption so on an earlier episode of inside story has some had better ask says guest if cyril ramaphosa can save the party of nelson mandela has al jazeera dot com bent to shows and click on inside story china is denying allegations u.s. allegations that is that it's been violating u.n. sanctions on north korea by selling oil the assertions are based on satellite pictures taken in october which appear to show chinese ships transferring oil to north korean vessels the us president donald trump expressed his displeasure via twitter so take a look at what he said caught red handed very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea and there will never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen rob mcbride has more reaction from beijing. china will not be happy with this latest criticism from president trump coming in such a public stinging manner but it's true to say that china has become used to dealing with the united states in a different way over the past year and has been accustomed to president trump's tweets at the ministry of foreign affairs regular press briefing friday in beijing there was no specific reference or reply to this latest attack but the spokes person was asked about the allegations concerning this hong kong registered vessel seized in south korea for allegedly dealing in illicit oil with north korea the ministry said that it has been investigated to the chinese customs have no record of this vessel visiting a chinese port since august although it has no records of it whether it visited other ports as far as it knows the chinese government does not know of any illicit activity that this vessel has been involved in repeating that the chinese government is still very much committed to enforcing the u.n. sanctions whether china has known about any trades that might be taking place it's difficult to believe that any illegal activity or transfer of oil at sea could take place without china's knowledge and it would fit with the general narrative of china quietly supporting the north korean regime not necessarily out of any loyalty to an old ally but really as a pragmatic measure to shore up the regime as far as china is concerned it's a comparable blee live with a nuclear armed north korea not an ideal situation but for china the unacceptable situation is a collapsing regime that still has access to nuclear warheads that for china is the worst case scenario rosen jordan following this story from washington giving us the u.s. perspective and trump has expanded honest thoughts about china in fact during a wide ranging interview rosalind alongside that tweet. well it wasn't so much that he was thinking about trying to weigh in on the north korea situation but in this interview with the new york times the president indicated that he had been holding back on punishing china economically by imposing some sort of trade restrictions in the hope that beijing would actually live up to its security council obligations and actually cut back or stop all oil and natural gas shipments to the north korean government and that's because north korea doesn't have any of those stockpiles of its own it can't produce oil or natural gas and so without it basically the north korean economy grinds to a halt of course there is the other concern that many have raised about whether this would end up hurting the north korean people but in the face of north korea's repeated efforts to deepen its nuclear weapons expertise and to actually build a nuclear weapons the u.s. has been trying to make certain that those ambitions are stopped in any way possible and of course that does come on the heels of the recent security council resolution to basically stop nearly all natural gas imports into the country so there was a little bit of news daryn coming out of this new york times interview but he did say that he doesn't think that beijing has been doing enough and that he is prepared to perhaps impose trade restrictions on something that he says should be pretty obvious to the chinese that a north korean government with nuclear weapons is an existential threat to beijing as well as to neighboring russia stand by rosalind because we want to talk about another presidential tweet that's caused a stir this one about climate change and the bitter winter conditions and some. parts of the u.s. so this is what the president tweeted in the east it could be the coldest new year's eve on record perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming that our country but not other countries was going to pay trillions of dollars to protect against a bundle up rosin supposed joining us in a moment because he'll give us the reaction online to that tweets as i'm sure there's a lot of reaction but one just kind of wonder is what message he's trying to send out with with a tweet like that. well i'm not in the president's mind so i can't really say what was the motivating factor for the president's commentary except for the fact that we should note that he is at one of his properties in florida where the temperature today is going to be in the mid twenty's and we already understand that he's already out for another day of golfing so he's not having to actually deal with subzero temperatures here in the northeast or across indeed much of the united states where the temperatures are not just very very cold big life threatening certainly the president. you know really in endured a lot of criticism some would say justifiably so because he has started the process of pulling the united states out of the paris climate agreement and he also has been taking steps to try to put people at the environmental protection agency people who do not believe that global warming is an actual problem not just for the people live on the planet but for the environment as well ok jordan giving us the update from washington thank you well andrew is here as i was saying he joined us here a social media producer you've seen the tweet what reaction have you seen from not only climb to climate scientists but other people as well well daryn we have to start by putting the tweet back up because we've seen so many people responding to it i've never seen i haven't seen it in a very long time that's been unpacked in this way one hundred seven thousand folks have gone on twitter it's respond directly to the president many of them poking holes in this tweet on global warming you have politicians and climate scientists sure but generally many people pointing out that there are several pop problematic points the first being in their view that he doesn't appear to know the difference between weather and climates the difference comes down to a measure of time weather describes conditions of the atmosphere over a short pier. could of time while climate is how the atmosphere behaves over relatively long periods of time nasa says the climate can be thought of as the sum of long periods of weather in other words weather is the mood and climate is the personality the folks over at dictionary dot com have chimed into this saying second issue with the president's tweet that he uses conditions in one part of the united states to represent what's happening or arguably not happening globally. purcell is the former vice chair of the un intergovernmental panel on climate change who had this message for president the president term you might have forgotten that it's winter at the moment in the northern hemisphere it's perfectly normal no it's very called at the moment in the eastern part of north america because the jet stream is ringing is ringing the very cold air from the arctic and if the jet stream is doing that right no it's probably also because of global warming because the melting of the sea ice in the arctic is disrupting the position of the jet stream and the jet stream is bringing much more called air but. you can be sure that the rest of the word this is warming look at the map after all the year that ending two thousand and seventeen is one of the warmest year of the last hundred and fifty is at the global level so what's happening no indeed us is not relevant for the climate of the whole year and the whole globe. the third issue that many people are pointing out is that president trump doesn't seem to understand that record low temperatures can exist within a warming climate but you have to look at the ratio of the record warmest days the hottest days versus the coldest in a particular year the climate scientist michael mann shared this very helpful snapshot here you can see in twenty seventeen there were three record high temperature days for every record low now decades ago there were only twice as many record high temperature days as low ones and there are models which say that the ratio could be twenty to one by mid century all of this of course is based on u.s. government data in fact the trump administration signed off on a report a few weeks ago saying that human activity is likely to blame for climate change with greenhouse gas emissions being the dominant cause another issue with his tweet he says that a little bit of the good old fashioned global warming might be good for the united states and that the government was going to spend trillions of dollars to protect against it problem is the united states isn't spending trillions trillions to fight it the obama administration committed three billion dollars over four years to help developing nations that are already being impacted but actually the u.s. economy according to one study is already losing billions hundreds of billions of dollars a year due to extreme weather events which are made worse by climate change that's one estimate from the universal ecological fund and finally the people who are affected most by this end up being trump supporters in parts of the united states which are most affected by coastal flooding and extreme heat so we're curious to hear what you think about the president's comments and what it means for you wherever you are in the world you can tweet me your views on at hell or just use the hash tag a.j. newsgroup well speaking of comments twenty seventeen has been a year of controversy on crisis most notably for donald trump his actions statements and repeated attacks on the media have left many asking how do you cover president donald trump and that is what might they have guests do debate and discuss in this upfront special you can watch it on al jazeera dot com. so how is all this and other major issues affecting the fortunes of donald trump's republican party which faces elections next year up for grabs are all seats in the u.s. house of representatives and a third of the senate were brunell's reports as part of our look ahead to twenty eighteen. dumbell tropez a lower approval rating than any other president in modern times at this point in their first terms of office and that's bad news for members of congress in his own republican party as they face the november twenty eighth teen midterm elections works it's very helpful to have a popular president at the top of the ticket but without trump at this point in pro rating and thirty years i'm not sure how much of a plus donald trump will be dissatisfied action with trump and the unpopularity of his tax cut legislation which is seen to benefit the wealthy has created a big enthusiasm gap between republican and democratic voters that was vividly on display in recent elections when a democrat won the virginia governor's race and even more so when democrats turned out in large numbers to help the democrat doug jones eke out a narrow win over accused child molester roy moore in the senatorial race in conservative alabama democrats are fired up we saw some significant electoral movement particularly among african-americans a solid constituency for the democratic party but we weren't sure that they would be enthusiastic in both of those contests they were very enthusiastic and the other group that we've been looking at in particular are white college graduates who many of whom seem very disenchanted with. many analysts believe democrats have a good chance of taking control of the house of representatives. winning the senate is more difficult for democrats because many of them are defending seats in states which voted republican last year but even control of one house of congress would allow democrats to block trump's legislative agenda for the rest of his term ending in twenty twenty overshadowing the entire political scene is the investigation by special counsel robert muller of russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election if mohler is able to show collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin it would be a political bombshell and a disaster for the president and his party robert oulds al jazeera los angeles more look ahead series moves to zimbabwe on saturday twenty eight thousand will be a year of change after the political upheaval the remove the longtime ruler robert mugabe question is what's likely to change in a nation that spent years on the brink of economic catastrophe we'll bring you that story from harare well greece has found itself largely on its own to deal with what's been a huge influx of refugees and migrants in recent years with little or no offer from some fellow e.u. nations to take them in greece is trying to find jobs for its new arrivals in an economy where many greeks are out of work but there is some hope as lawrence lee found out. language class for this group of refugees in northern greece jason from it live in syria has decided to seek asylum here they all need greek anyway because they'll be here for months or even years so slow is the bureaucracy. jason said he wants to study and maybe become a hairdresser. but he's open to suggestions for work. across this country similar scenes are happening the rest of europe has decided the greece can cope more or less greece has got a big problem the economist on the whole more than forty percent youth unemployment and at the same time greece is having to deal with the brunt of the refugee influx and the european quota system for sharing them out has fallen apart completely so here's the big question if there's not enough jobs for greeks than what to expect refugees to do. in the absence of any other bright ideas some people here have decided to celebrate the new arrivals farmer demetrius makes some dried tomatoes and grows herb's but he has a problem his village like hundreds of others has shrunk by half since the economic crisis as the young people moved away there are empty houses here waiting for families to move in to breathe new life into the community he'd love nothing more than refugees from rural syria to help him out you think you could help each other yes if they're there if you just want to us to stay here we can do it many thinks together. so the idea came from a local organization working with refugees it argues that greece's economic crisis could be partly solved by the refugee influx not cheap labor but co-operative farms giving the new arrivals an economic stake and encourage them to stay refugees that used to live in rural areas on their original country or they have experience in farming we think that they can also assist the locals and the locals going to then and in developing the future for both in the camps it's becoming clear what happens when refugees can't access the jobs market a groups are warning of a huge spike in drug abuse by refugees stuck for years in a shipping container cannabis is sold alongside fruit on the roadside of the noses of the police of the camp male refugees selling their bodies has become common as well they are buying drugs there are some people using headline also. in the camp and they are just because they're plants and just because you don't have any hope. here these last life of. their life. they don't have any hope. but the greeks here claim refugees get special treatment while they're left to suffer in poverty they were life in the camps in which generous their own apparently no greeks to work the fields it is agricultural land and grow the economy it's only one idea but maybe they're starting to realize you can make a virtue out of a crisis. in the increase. studies have found that refugees fleeing war violence and persecution have a much higher risk of developing psychiatric illnesses than people who migrate for economic or social reasons and last year researchers tracked diagnosis data among one point three million people in sweden which per capita has granted more refugee applications than any other wealthy country they found that refugees given asylum were sixty six percent more likely to develop schizophrenia or another psychotic disorder or that non refugee migrants refugees were also up to three point six times more likely to suffer psychosis than the sweetest born population and have a higher risk of other mental conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder which brings flashbacks and panic attacks peter of events of oh go is the senior mental health officer with the u.n. refugee agency he says this problem may seem overwhelming but there are solutions. there are many good examples that i know off the mental health professionals who work with refugees but in general the whole mental health systems in europe are not well prepared because of issues related to language and culture so what i think needs to be done is much more training for doctors and psychologists in europe but also to see how we can use the potential of refugee stem cells to support each other that actually if you give refugees an opportunity to rebuild their lives they will take it so helping people help themselves should be the first thing and that's something that. mental health care systems in europe are not very much prepared to to it's too much clinic based while we can do much more with refugee communities well when december thirty first two days away our social team has compiled a highlights reel of the year that was and our facebook viewers will get a look at it in just a moment coming up on the newsgroup a proposal to ban instant divorces in india gets an i do it from parliament lower house. welcome back the weather across much of western asia is looking fine at the moment called bit of cloud around bustle fairly benign so we're looking at decent conditions there across much of afghanistan further north into kazakhstan fine conditions around the caspian sea generally back down twenty two degrees not too bad for this time of the year beirut bright enough with highs of nineteen albeit with a brisk wind and not a great deal of change expected on sunday that frontal system push away across turkey into cyprus that's as far as it gets that time there is a very been put in sure warm and pleasant in mecca thirty three here in cats are it's looking very nice beautiful time of the year to be here twenty five degrees the high in doha and not much change as we head on through into the start of the working week now let's head down into southern portions of africa on the satellite imagery you can see a lot of cloud across and go to zimbabwe zambia but also this area of cloud across eastern parts of south africa so there's a threat of showers there from this system during the course of saturday for the eastern cape but it does move away as we head on into sunday said durban will see it brightening up cape town should be dry and fine for the nor sunshine in winter look to which there of thirty five degrees and across much of central africa the weather's looking fine there because still see wanted to shower is troubling the prevail. an underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath india's largest cofield. now open coast mining has put the flames to the surface would devastating consequences for the local population. as communities are destroyed and thousand suffer from toxic fumes what lies behind this human and environmental disaster. people in power the burning city at this time on al-jazeera the nature of news as it breaks the last time senegal qualified for the world cup was in two thousand to fifteen years on it hope to do even better in russia next year with detailed coverage hard to imagine that only seven years ago people were living right here. now this feat has taken over their land from around the world donald trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade a potential challenge to khorat a missed opportunity abroad. trending right now on our website the top story why is the west praising the law about ignoring. sixteen year old girls. by israeli forces in the occupied west bank. yesterday head to al-jazeera dot com to read more about that in the second story. took place just a couple hours ago in which. a church so had. much more on. the legislation proposed jail time for muslim men who try to end their marriages through so-called instant divorces has been approved by the lower house of parliament andrew is back to take us through the details off all of that on the reaction andrew. well in the muslim faith instant divorce occurs when a man says the arabic word the lock meaning you are divorced three times in succession instant divorce was banned by the indian supreme court months ago ruling that it violated women's rights and now a bill is moving through the india indian parliament that would essentially criminalize the practice you have many people on one side of this debate congratulating politicians for pushing legislation through the lower house this student organization calling it a historic move that secures universal principles of law and humanity one that will smash patriarchy and lead to gender justice and after the vote several lawmakers praised the decision is why given how big of you to move this country forward the reforms for georgians for the sisters of the muslim community equality agenda justice gender equality gender dignity this is the bill men enjoy it now is slim fifty's was facing this popular decades in the demanding and i just had to protection or any other sort of governmental protection to miss them women we've got it now that we're very happy today however the vote has also faced a lot of resistance from the opposition they say the bill is actually worse for women's rights. this is not. a light just to fill us in a moment but you are giving us the muslim men the big lead in justice to ensure that your dream of having a lot of muslim men realize this is what you're doing now online people are also arguing the triple to lock is a civil matter and not a criminal one and they're accusing the governments of attacking muslim traditions for political gain this user says the government is not doing this to give justice to victims of trouble to lock but simply to interfere in the religious affairs of muslims while here says that's she's a muslim woman and this bill is not what she fought for at a time when muslim men are already living in fear one more law would be added to harass jail and demonize them although there are no official statistics on how many divorces in india are considered to be triple to lock cases some of them were very notably announced via e-mail s.m.s. or whatsapp and in some cases they were sent from overseas more than twenty countries especially twenty muslim majority countries have already banned the practice but we are also curious to hear what you think about this story especially if you're watching us from india be sure to let us know what you think using the has tag it in its good will more or we have more on the trouble to lock on al-jazeera dot com as well so we break it down what exactly it means what the opposition is saying and which other countries have banned the practice it had to al-jazeera it's all com for more on that let's just take a look at the multi viewer this is where a news agency feeds are coming into us from around the world as you can see so this right there is a new york city that's where an apartment fire has killed twelve people in the bronx neighborhood and a press conference is going on about that or perhaps it's just ended we'll get you the latest lines from that press conference so that is new york city for now sits here and standing by with that story and other global headlines hi sue. i don't rain i've areas vice president joseph rocca has congratulated his rival george weah on winning the west african nations presidency where is a former fifa world football player of the year who won chose ses run off with sixty one percent of the vote for the hand of goodwill to rear and said he wouldn't subject the country through a dispute over the result to avoid any bloodshed it would be liberia's first democratic transition of power in seventy years. agencies have now evacuated twenty nine critically ill people from eastern guta besieged a rebel held area near syria's capital damascus they were allowed to leave as part of a deal with the syrian government but as they know how the reports many of the patients weren't so lucky. an appeal from a grieving mother. only and she hopes that all the sick children in eastern huta will receive medical treatment so that their parents don't lose them. lost her daughter but two was ten years old when she died her parents say her life could have been saved but they live in an area besieged by syrian government forces where there is no proper medical care. her sickness started with pain in her teeth knees and heart doctors said there was something wrong with her nervous system and antibiotics didn't help the medication didn't work and she passed away. it's too late for batool but twenty nine critically ill patients are being given the chance at survival that was agreed after a deal between the syrian government and the armed group official islam that involved the rebels freeing prisoners in exchange eighteen of those transferred to hospitals in damascus where children. hundreds more are of treatment there is a severe shortage of medical supplies the medical facilities in the area have all but been destroyed by the siege and the bombardment just over one hundred doctors provide care for an estimated four hundred thousand people half of them are believed to be children and. the children are always the ones who are the most vulnerable and affected as a result of the siege there are many children who have cancer they can't be cured because there is no medicine to treat them there are diseases because of the pollution even the water is polluted there are many cases of severe malnutrition in the united nations says one in eight children is going hungry up from one in fifty in may eastern huta has been besieged since two thousand and thirteen but in recent months pro-government forces tightened the blockade closing smuggling routes and tunnels that were being used. humanitarian organizations have been pleading for months with the syrian government to allow the critically ill patients to leave it workers are hoping that the evacuations will be the beginning of more to come they're also asking for safety guarantees some patients are worried of arrest if they go to government controlled territory. doesn't have much time she is four years old and her sickness requires treatment that is not available in eastern huta it's a difficult time for her mother im of the law who was hoping that her daughter was on the evacuation list into my house on the phone. to my daughter has a kenyan throat cancer doctors told me she needs surgery to remove her throat because the tumor is too big and the cancer cells are spreading i hope someone helps me my child also needs chemotherapy and i can't afford it please whoever is hearing me now i ask for your help and. already almost twenty patients among the children have died while waiting for evacuation centers beirut at least fifteen people have been killed and dozens injured after a fire tore through a restaurant in the indian city of mumbai is thought many of the victims were young women celebrating their twenty eighth birthday at a late night party on the rooftop a fire spread quickly from the restaurant engulfing the rest of the four story building in less than thirty minutes it's not known how it started but officials say action will be taken against the. and as daryn mentioned just before a fire inside an apartment building in new york has claimed the lives of at least twelve people including four young children it started on the first floor and quickly spread up stairs killing people on several of the five floors investigators believe it may have been caused by a child playing with a stove it's new york city's deadliest fi in twenty five years. aside from me for the newsgroup now back to daryn in doha so thank you all haitian artists are turning the mounting trash problem on their island as you can see into an opportunity with plenty of material to work with they're creating a unique works to highlight endemic political as well as economic problems so as a boa went into the capital slums to meets some of the artists here's what she found. in one of the poorest areas of haiti's capital port au prince a place where people live surrounded by trash. and the part of the resistance pulls went against social inequality using art something is not spears love within a society it is just fighting every time someone. and it's just these. many of his cultures are based in what he describes as voodoo because of the special place the religious practice has in haitian history and society. asian people because you get. people fighting for get your freedom. but. the message here is that art can be done with anything if culture for example are done with all the parts bottles toys and even some of them with human remains you can see right here this calls for example are from the earthquake back in two thousand and ten. an earthquake that killed more than three hundred thousand people the remains are from a mass grave in port-au prince. showing reality is crucial ojo says he's using old clothes sent to haiti by foreigners in his latest painting with my objective is to show haiti to the world you are it is not only about voodoo but it is showing the talent and diversity that exists here and they send us old clothes and we send it back turned into art. that this is a considered no go zone in the capital canaria when many foreigners do not want to go. but art has inspired some teenagers who say they would rather use brushes instead of weapons and it's you know i would love to become a good artist when i can paint something and do it perfectly. every year we charge more is bring some of the pieces from the artist to his hotel so tourists can take a closer look at the movement where you live in garbage that's the economy they have created an economy where you and your neighborhood your people your friends your family they live in garbage and you have taken this garbage and you've turned it into a beauty you've turned it into art you've turned it into messages. the work done by resistance artists has been displayed in museums around the world. but they say despite their success internationally life continues to be a struggle in the areas where they grew up. as prince haiti. the town is here shortly with what people are talking about in sports and. tell us about two former world number ones who are hoping to make winning. right after a snapshot of the world weather. january on just the african heads of states and governments will gather them for the station at the same body of the african union where the goal set out scene twenty seventeen minutes rewind return with brand new episodes updating some of the best al-jazeera documentaries from all over the years the biggest names in politics in business will meet in the swiss alps for the world economic forum what will be top of the agenda maggie our sun engages in rigorous debate cutting through the headlines on up front and in the week our special coverage will be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january on al-jazeera. hello again let's find out what people are talking about in sports a day here is that you know thanks very much terrain two thousand and eighteen is set to be the year of tennis comebacks and today we're talking about the much anticipated return to form a men's wild number ones novak djokovic and andy murray who have both been out about action for the best part of six months while djokovic fans are having to wait a little bit longer than they'd hoped to see him back the twelve time grand slam champion was due to play in an exhibition twenty minutes in abu dhabi today but earlier on hand he wasn't quite fully recovered from his recent elbow and we don't know yet where the health stopped at the say than his pad that next week we next week qatar open that's good news for mari fans though he is returning to action in abu dhabi and harry is practicing ahead of his first match since wimbledon. well with jock itch and mari absences the much of twenty seventeen it means that all of tennis is so cool big for the stock of it mari as well as russian adama roger federer had to take an extended injury breaks from the sport with the ultimate aim of trying to prolong the career while it suddenly wild for roger federer he was out with a knee injury for the second half of twenty sixteen returned in january of this year to win his first grand slam title in five years at the australian open he then added his nineteenth major crown at wimbledon and rows back up to world number two in the rankings not bad for thirty six year old as a with a similar situation for rough in a down here he thought out of the end of twenty six the also with a knee injury and won the other two grand slams this see a record tenth title roland garros and then won his sixteenth grand slam at the u.s. open he's not one so back on top of the world rankings well joke of it in particular has spoken of his desire to emulate the achievements of federer and the dow this year and get back to the very top of the game after a long time out injured earlier only off tennis commentator robbie hooper how realistic key things those goals actually are. i think going to very interesting to see what happens when obviously you're you're talking about a long long way off but you know last year we saw roger federer come back with his long way off and really had a great year two thousand and seventeen with two grand slam titles you know i like the signs and over here from circuit which has been talking this week about how motivated he used to come back to field because a lot of time left on the two words and just look at what he was talking about me fucking what you on jeopardy factor in that james you know playing well it was very late thirty's so i think he's excited to be back he's also talked about how much he wants to get back to number one and would work grand slam titles but to do that after not playing for six months even if not better to the last year i think could be more difficult for just the rich because there's the way that he plays his game i think it's great for the tour when you have such a big big player come back on the tour after an absence and you have to remember this and he's playing in the era of roger federer and rafael nadal but he has done something that three never difficult task that was when four consecutive greater that was two thousand and fifty two thousand and six be the first man to do that that's rod laver knifing sixty nine so to have somebody of his caliber of fact playing at the same time with federer and adults as it was years ago i think can only be great for the game it's fragile prose i said the same thing with an effect a great great player a whole lot of players based on court there might not want to see him on the other side of that because he's that good for flair but for the game for the sport in general obviously it's just great news and within the various big four obviously i soon found out i think he's the type of player who needs to play a lot more matches let's say saturday would have to do to get back in the group because that's the way the way places game is different to the way that federer plays federer is attacking aggressive player first short ball around and he goes forward there's a point a lot of law points for joking which i think yes to hit a lot of ball to really get back to the group if you had a lot of balls and match plays that have to play in tournaments that. submissions ahead of those big events so i think that it might take him longer to get back to the group of what's the matter did last year however i do expect it to happen at some point in two thousand and eighteen because the caliber of the way that he plays and how good he is not remember you know told majors and at the time that he was not a speed he was he was not only beating the dollar and that he was beaten regularly especially around his daughters while while the rest of the big four try to regain their fitness before the start of the season roger federer is already in australia and looking very relaxed as well harry is making some new fairy friends this is called a quokka known as the walls happiest imo if native to path federal will begin his season playing in the hoffman cup team event but stalls on saturday. where his the result of a selfie is federal with taking very care he writes so happy to be back down on. and that so for me for now but as always you can get in touch with us using the hash tag eighteen is great or tweet me at i am tatiana i'll be back with more sports at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now they're in effect here to town to thank you well the last call from the doomed titanic news of the first manned flight and the u.s. entry into world war one the telegram has been at the heart of some of the world's most historic events and now it's finally coming to an end in belgium one of the last countries to use the obsolete technology the final message has been sent one hundred seventy one years after the country's first electric telegram was delivered the worker tells the story from london where telegrams were born. for one hundred eighty years the iconic telegram brought news of calamity and condolence joy and success. it entered popular culture surviving the invention of the telephone and instant messaging but the end is nigh it was ironically via twitter the belgian telecoms firm proxima announced the demise of its service one of the last in the world the system was kept alive by only a handful of businesses mostly bailiff's issuing hard copies of legal documents tucked away in a london science museum as some of the earliest examples of the technology the first system was developed in england in eight hundred thirty seven and would go on to change the world by nineteen hundred. cables that connected all the different continents of the world and they with it was the first step to globalization radio t.v. telephone that our world has basically built on the telegraph it's hard to imagine but once these cumbersome machines were cutting ends technology it was the same way that computers were much later on they used the latest science of the day electromagnetism to point needles that letters in the alphabet to eventually spell out a word it was all down to how skilled the telegraph operator was using these handles . the technology created a certain style of writing a bit like modern text messages the word stop was used to indicate the end of a sentence send us also a pay by the word leading to some resourceful ways of communicating the shortest telegram of the english language was sent by the writer and celebrated wit oscar wilde he was living in paris and sent a message to his publisher to see how his new book was doing the message simply read. publisher responded. later morse code was used to send telegraphic messages on april the fifteenth nine hundred twelve the ill fated titanic sent one of its last distress calls. the u.k. abandoned the telegram in one thousand nine hundred to the us in two thousand and six and the biggest market in india four years ago but the technology isn't quite dead yet you can still send telegrams in places like italy also a host of online companies and apps of emerged in recent years offering people an experience of a bygone age. barca al-jazeera london stop and i know it will leave me here thanks for watching news great we'll see you back here at the same time on saturday. al jazeera is award winning programs to take you on a journey around the globe. expert analysis. it's all about who's in charge who controls the resources and documentaries that will in your eyes it's a technology story it's a business story it's a social story and it's a political 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